Quote of the Day

The daily activities that contribute most to happiness are having dinner with friends and having sex. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Have more sex. Commute less.

“The daily activities that contribute most to happiness are having dinner with friends and having sex. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Have more sex. Commute less.” — David Brooks, “What Me Worry,” Commencement Address, Indiana University (2013-05-03)

Quote of the Day

Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.

“Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.” — Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet